"Raed, with a number of other abolitionists, believed that all men ought to be free: so they kept to work stirring up bad feeling between the North and South till the war broke out, when they fell upon us with their armies and fleets, and committed the most wholesale piece of robbery that ever disgraced history,--robbed us of several billion dollars' worth of property, all at one swoop." "To what sort of property do you refer ?" Raed asked.
"Slaves." "I thought so!" "Then you are not disappointed in my 'principles,' as you choose to term them ?" "Not in the least!" "I, at least, have never tried to conceal them." "I should expect you to favor Kit's proposition; but I'm sadly surprised to hear Kit make it." "Understand me!" exclaimed Kit.

"I advocate it merely as a temporary measure, only justified by our necessity.

I mean to pay them for all we have.

But we haven't the pay here.

They wouldn't trust us for what we want.